Weird Cloud - Saturday 6/6/2009

No, Weird Cloud is not my Native American name, thank you very much.

It's this thing that was hovering over Palmdale on Saturday morning. I'm pretty sure this formation is caused by a lee wave. If you Google "lee wave" and click on Images, you get photos of things that look like this.

Poppies Popping - Saturday 3/14/2009

The poppies are starting up a little early this year, thanks to all the rain. Most of them are up on inaccessible hills in our area.


According to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve's website, the poppies aren't in full bloom yet.

We have a few in our yard. Most of the flowers on the hills near us are smaller yellow and purple flowers.

These were taken on Soledad Canyon Road.

The Big Weather Tour - Sunday 2/3/2008

This is what it looks like when it snows in the mountains. They get covered up with clouds. This is in Acton.

We were headed back to an antiques place around Littlerock, CA to see if we could find something we thought we saw a few weeks ago. Then went on toward Wrightwood.



Really nice to see people getting out into the snow. There were a few dozen cars parked along the way and kids and adults climbing up and sliding down. This is probably around 5000 feet up in the Angeles National Forest. We're down at 3000.



It started raining. The temperature was around 34 degrees and the road was increasingly slushy and we were still 6 miles from Wrightwood when we turned around. Just didn't want to get stuck up there if it turned to snow.



Snowplow! So exciting! At least one of my brothers used to drive one of these for the county back in Indiana...maybe both of them.


Look at that! A rainbow over the Antelope Valley. There were also dust storms going on off the dry lakebeds, but I didn't get a great shot of that.

Time to head home to our cozy house and our flock! Brrr!